Most pawn shops, at least where I'm from have an FFL (Federal Firearms License, the stamp they need to sell guns as a business), but private sales are perfectly legal and don't require the seller to do a background check on the buyer. Plus, all sales records at the store and with the state police are destroyed after 30 days (or are supposed to be) in accordance with state law. But yeah, if you're in Massachusetts, probably not so easy.
Yeah, but then you lose your spam net. He may not be a "negative person," but his positive attitude creating 10% of all spam on the net over a period of time isn't exactly a charitable gesture. But then, I think spammers are worse than terrorists.
Modern Russia? You must have Russia confused with a country that has ever been free. The went from the Czars to the Bolsheviks, and have since been lead by a string of oil barons and former KGB officers nostalgic for the old days. I mean, really... has that country ever had anything approaching freedom since the original Viking settlers headed out there in the middle ages?
Of course they have costs, but that's not the point. Revenue is all the money they bring in, then profits are revenue - costs. If a company bringing in about a billion dollars a year in gross revenue isn't making any profit, then they're doing it wrong.
But the valuation of the company also has to include assets and liabilities. GoDadddy probably won't go for a $1bn, but I still think its not an unreasonable amount. That of course is given my complete lack of insider knowledge.
If all their customers renew their domain for just one more year, that's already almost $500,000,000 in revenue right there, just on repeat business, and that's nothing to say about SSL certificates, hosting, or any of their other products. $1,000,000,000 is a pretty good deal for a company that almost certainly makes at least that per year.
Didn't they try this back in the 90s? As I recall, no one really wanted it. I also recall Java basically being invented for use in digital tv streaming interactive content boxes, which never really came to market, but we got stuck with Java anyway. But whatever, at least no one is being forced to buy these, or buy TV at all, so its OK.
The dragon that fights Beowulf for the chalice? Yeah, apparently that's Beowulf's son with Grendal's mom. Then they set it up so that Wiglaf, who takes over for Beowulf, is next in line to get with her. I understand the (rapidly fading) appeal of Angelina Jolie, but that was just offensive. It was like someone took a dump on the canon of English literature. My sister and I almost left the theatre, but since we only paid $2 a piece to see the midnight showing at the Byrd in Richmond, stayed.
The worst part was, on the way out, this one homie as talking to his other homies saying, "aw, dawg, you know deyz gunna make a sequel to dat one, dawg!"... seriously, what passes for education these days is truly awful.
I'm actually a fan of Jane Austen, the Brontës, and other similar writers, but I mostly took a break from studying computers in college and got a degree in literature and history instead, before reviving my perl coding unix nerd skills to find employment. I might give whack at the zombies version, but I think it might bother me in much the same way I hated the insinuations that Beowulf did it with Grendel's mom in the most recent Beowulf movie.
I suspect the USA will have a military longer than there will be an Iraq. Iraq itself, as a political entity, is a creation of British Imperialism, which is why we had to spend so much time suppressing a 3-way civil war. That's the same reason there is constant civil war in various African countries where groups who don't particularly care for each other are forced to jockey for position to negotiate on behalf of the entire population of some lines on a map that were drawn by Europeans who then up and left them to their own devices, but who still want to deal with the "recognized government" of a former colonial area.
I'm just saying, that whether Iraq still had any left overs in 2003, or whether they were making new stock, or both, or neither doesn't really change the fact that we went in, and have been there for 7 years. It doesn't matter if the North Vietnamese actually attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. playing Monday morning quarterback on the Vietnam war is an exercise in futility, much the same way debating the merits of the cause de guere from 2003 doesn't really change the fact we have to deal with the mess NOW.
That's a problem with digital content in general, like Wikipedia. Any jackass can edit it to say anything they want any time they want, and depending on who else is paying attention, they might get away with it. I'm not particularly into ebooks, but if staring closely at a back lit screen for hours and hours is what it takes to get kids to pay attention to Pride and Prejudice sans the zombies, then it'll have to do.
Face it -- we don't live in a post-scarcity Star Trek world. We don't live in the Spanish Republic with the Anarchists (CNT) running the phone system. Some things you have to pay for, so you may as well just suck it up.
The cost of the book goes to cover paying author royalties, the editors, the type setters, etc. Just because you don't have a "press" anymore doesn't mean you don't still have pre-press. This seems "good enough" for now. Digital copies of books, movies and music are already cheaper than the physical ones, and most commercially-produced content isn't going to be free-as-in-beer, because they can't operate like that. What's good for software doesn't necessarily work for other things.
I know that it doesn't really "cost" anything to make digital reproductions of digital goods, which is probably the point the summary was hinting at with the "odd thing" bit, however this seems like a fairly decent compromise to get a new media format worked into the traditional model of how libraries function. It'll get more content out, expose more people to the library system, and probably help gain new acceptance for the technology. In a few years, the model will probably evolve -- most librarians I've known were all about anything to help get people reading, and would be towards the head of the pack in pushing for new ways to make it happen.
The thing is, Iraq really did have WMDs at one point. This is a verifiable, widely known fact. The use of them is documented. However, they bought them from the US who was willing to sell chemical weapons to the lesser of two evils in order to create a bullwork against Iran, after our Iranian puppet fell in revolution. I make no claim to have any knowledge of whether or not Iraq had any WMDs at the time of the invasion, and frankly its almost sort of irrelevant at this point.
This is all just fallout from the breakup of the Ottoman Empire following World War I. The British encouraged Arab nationalism against the Turks, since Istanbul was allied with the Germans. Then the Brits took over administration of the region, and in World War II, the Germans backed the Baathists against the British. Then the Americans took their turn, and now we have this crap. Its all just failed attempts at managing an empire without the benefit of a heavy boot.
Well, you should. NetApp deals strongly with FreeBSD, and it is my understanding that they use it as part of their platform, which is a good bit of the reason why FreeBSD has had ZFS support for so long. In the Linux world, battles over patent and licensing issues with regards to ZFS is what has kept it from being able to enjoy native support. Oracle runs its own Linux distribution based off of RHEL, so being able to make sure that the coast is clear for them to integrated ZFS into Linux is a big step. This is probably part of the reason why the planned native ZFS module to be released in a few weeks isn't already being sued into oblivion.
You may not care about the corporate fortunes of NetApp or Oracle, but this has the potential to turn out into good news for lots of FLOSS-minded people.
I thought on soviet Slashdot, college was for suckers? At least, that seems to be the general narrative any time someone mentions college in an 'Ask Slashdot'. Maybe this can answer the question once and for all: college isn't there to teach you IT, and probably not to teach you how to be a programmer if you just aren't one; college is there to help you raise the level of your discourse to an acceptable level.
Yes, I know. But the extremists are just looking for excuses to be offended, and I don't really see a reason to help give them another one, particularly one which is just somewhat offensive in technique.
The crux of the matter here is I just think that this guy feels a need to be controversial and only invokes free speech as a defense to attempt to legitimize his actions. He's about as helpful a spokesman for the first amendment as the guy who shot up VA Tech would have been for the second amendment. He abuses a freedom that's necessary to maintaining a free and democratic society and causes people to start questioning what the limits of the freedom are or should be.
Does he have the right to do this? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean that he should, even if the possibility of a violent reaction weren't an issue. If he were planning to go to Harlem in a KKK outfit on the anniversary of the Nat Turner slave revolt, would we say "that's just freedom of speech!", or would we say "but what if he provokes a violent response from the Black Panthers!"? Chances are we'd say its a bitch move and he deserves what he gets. The only difference I can really see is that, in my hypothetical the violence would likely be directed right at his head, whereas any potential violence will likely be aimed at targets of opportunity rather than someone nailing him personally.
But, also just like my hypothetical example, the real tragedy isn't in violence perpetrated by the known extremist faction, either Al Qaeda or the Panthers, but in the harm done to relations between the non-extreme elements of the population. He'll probably push more than a handful of fence-sitters over the edge by this, and 'prove' in many more peoples' minds that maybe America isn't all that tolerant of Islam, and maybe they're not really welcome here.
I happen to think all religion is equally stupid, and stuff like this doesn't really help prove otherwise. No good can come from this, even if the harm is less than spectacular.
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In Christian Paradis's Canada, science is under the inquisition? Irony and whatnot...
I wonder when Chris Hansen will get in on the action?
Most pawn shops, at least where I'm from have an FFL (Federal Firearms License, the stamp they need to sell guns as a business), but private sales are perfectly legal and don't require the seller to do a background check on the buyer. Plus, all sales records at the store and with the state police are destroyed after 30 days (or are supposed to be) in accordance with state law. But yeah, if you're in Massachusetts, probably not so easy.
Yeah, but then you lose your spam net. He may not be a "negative person," but his positive attitude creating 10% of all spam on the net over a period of time isn't exactly a charitable gesture. But then, I think spammers are worse than terrorists.
That's because the Communists purged all the morons^Wreligious nuts.
My mom says I'm the center of the universe.... or is that just the basement?
Of course, I tend to think that everyone should just be using latex already, but like that is ever going to happen...
Not everyone is into your fetishes.
Modern Russia? You must have Russia confused with a country that has ever been free. The went from the Czars to the Bolsheviks, and have since been lead by a string of oil barons and former KGB officers nostalgic for the old days. I mean, really... has that country ever had anything approaching freedom since the original Viking settlers headed out there in the middle ages?
Of course they have costs, but that's not the point. Revenue is all the money they bring in, then profits are revenue - costs. If a company bringing in about a billion dollars a year in gross revenue isn't making any profit, then they're doing it wrong.
But the valuation of the company also has to include assets and liabilities. GoDadddy probably won't go for a $1bn, but I still think its not an unreasonable amount. That of course is given my complete lack of insider knowledge.
the company is 13 years old. this isn't exactly flipping a house after a few months and minor work. Not sure 'pump and dump' is really accurate.
If all their customers renew their domain for just one more year, that's already almost $500,000,000 in revenue right there, just on repeat business, and that's nothing to say about SSL certificates, hosting, or any of their other products. $1,000,000,000 is a pretty good deal for a company that almost certainly makes at least that per year.
Didn't they try this back in the 90s? As I recall, no one really wanted it. I also recall Java basically being invented for use in digital tv streaming interactive content boxes, which never really came to market, but we got stuck with Java anyway. But whatever, at least no one is being forced to buy these, or buy TV at all, so its OK.
they may well be committing several laws
Congress commits several laws every year, but no one's stopped them yet...
The dragon that fights Beowulf for the chalice? Yeah, apparently that's Beowulf's son with Grendal's mom. Then they set it up so that Wiglaf, who takes over for Beowulf, is next in line to get with her. I understand the (rapidly fading) appeal of Angelina Jolie, but that was just offensive. It was like someone took a dump on the canon of English literature. My sister and I almost left the theatre, but since we only paid $2 a piece to see the midnight showing at the Byrd in Richmond, stayed.
The worst part was, on the way out, this one homie as talking to his other homies saying, "aw, dawg, you know deyz gunna make a sequel to dat one, dawg!"... seriously, what passes for education these days is truly awful.
I'm actually a fan of Jane Austen, the Brontës, and other similar writers, but I mostly took a break from studying computers in college and got a degree in literature and history instead, before reviving my perl coding unix nerd skills to find employment. I might give whack at the zombies version, but I think it might bother me in much the same way I hated the insinuations that Beowulf did it with Grendel's mom in the most recent Beowulf movie.
I think this is the first time I've heard "flash support" and "good news" in the same sentence. My, how the times they are a changin'.
I suspect the USA will have a military longer than there will be an Iraq. Iraq itself, as a political entity, is a creation of British Imperialism, which is why we had to spend so much time suppressing a 3-way civil war. That's the same reason there is constant civil war in various African countries where groups who don't particularly care for each other are forced to jockey for position to negotiate on behalf of the entire population of some lines on a map that were drawn by Europeans who then up and left them to their own devices, but who still want to deal with the "recognized government" of a former colonial area.
I'm just saying, that whether Iraq still had any left overs in 2003, or whether they were making new stock, or both, or neither doesn't really change the fact that we went in, and have been there for 7 years. It doesn't matter if the North Vietnamese actually attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. playing Monday morning quarterback on the Vietnam war is an exercise in futility, much the same way debating the merits of the cause de guere from 2003 doesn't really change the fact we have to deal with the mess NOW.
That's a problem with digital content in general, like Wikipedia. Any jackass can edit it to say anything they want any time they want, and depending on who else is paying attention, they might get away with it. I'm not particularly into ebooks, but if staring closely at a back lit screen for hours and hours is what it takes to get kids to pay attention to Pride and Prejudice sans the zombies, then it'll have to do.
Face it -- we don't live in a post-scarcity Star Trek world. We don't live in the Spanish Republic with the Anarchists (CNT) running the phone system. Some things you have to pay for, so you may as well just suck it up.
The cost of the book goes to cover paying author royalties, the editors, the type setters, etc. Just because you don't have a "press" anymore doesn't mean you don't still have pre-press. This seems "good enough" for now. Digital copies of books, movies and music are already cheaper than the physical ones, and most commercially-produced content isn't going to be free-as-in-beer, because they can't operate like that. What's good for software doesn't necessarily work for other things.
I know that it doesn't really "cost" anything to make digital reproductions of digital goods, which is probably the point the summary was hinting at with the "odd thing" bit, however this seems like a fairly decent compromise to get a new media format worked into the traditional model of how libraries function. It'll get more content out, expose more people to the library system, and probably help gain new acceptance for the technology. In a few years, the model will probably evolve -- most librarians I've known were all about anything to help get people reading, and would be towards the head of the pack in pushing for new ways to make it happen.
The thing is, Iraq really did have WMDs at one point. This is a verifiable, widely known fact. The use of them is documented. However, they bought them from the US who was willing to sell chemical weapons to the lesser of two evils in order to create a bullwork against Iran, after our Iranian puppet fell in revolution. I make no claim to have any knowledge of whether or not Iraq had any WMDs at the time of the invasion, and frankly its almost sort of irrelevant at this point.
This is all just fallout from the breakup of the Ottoman Empire following World War I. The British encouraged Arab nationalism against the Turks, since Istanbul was allied with the Germans. Then the Brits took over administration of the region, and in World War II, the Germans backed the Baathists against the British. Then the Americans took their turn, and now we have this crap. Its all just failed attempts at managing an empire without the benefit of a heavy boot.
Well, you should. NetApp deals strongly with FreeBSD, and it is my understanding that they use it as part of their platform, which is a good bit of the reason why FreeBSD has had ZFS support for so long. In the Linux world, battles over patent and licensing issues with regards to ZFS is what has kept it from being able to enjoy native support. Oracle runs its own Linux distribution based off of RHEL, so being able to make sure that the coast is clear for them to integrated ZFS into Linux is a big step. This is probably part of the reason why the planned native ZFS module to be released in a few weeks isn't already being sued into oblivion.
You may not care about the corporate fortunes of NetApp or Oracle, but this has the potential to turn out into good news for lots of FLOSS-minded people.
I thought on soviet Slashdot, college was for suckers? At least, that seems to be the general narrative any time someone mentions college in an 'Ask Slashdot'. Maybe this can answer the question once and for all: college isn't there to teach you IT, and probably not to teach you how to be a programmer if you just aren't one; college is there to help you raise the level of your discourse to an acceptable level.
If you install the HTTPS-Everywhere plugin from the EFF, Wikipedia is one of the sights on the default encryption list. I suspect that's what he did.
Yes, I know. But the extremists are just looking for excuses to be offended, and I don't really see a reason to help give them another one, particularly one which is just somewhat offensive in technique.
The crux of the matter here is I just think that this guy feels a need to be controversial and only invokes free speech as a defense to attempt to legitimize his actions. He's about as helpful a spokesman for the first amendment as the guy who shot up VA Tech would have been for the second amendment. He abuses a freedom that's necessary to maintaining a free and democratic society and causes people to start questioning what the limits of the freedom are or should be.
Does he have the right to do this? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean that he should, even if the possibility of a violent reaction weren't an issue. If he were planning to go to Harlem in a KKK outfit on the anniversary of the Nat Turner slave revolt, would we say "that's just freedom of speech!", or would we say "but what if he provokes a violent response from the Black Panthers!"? Chances are we'd say its a bitch move and he deserves what he gets. The only difference I can really see is that, in my hypothetical the violence would likely be directed right at his head, whereas any potential violence will likely be aimed at targets of opportunity rather than someone nailing him personally.
But, also just like my hypothetical example, the real tragedy isn't in violence perpetrated by the known extremist faction, either Al Qaeda or the Panthers, but in the harm done to relations between the non-extreme elements of the population. He'll probably push more than a handful of fence-sitters over the edge by this, and 'prove' in many more peoples' minds that maybe America isn't all that tolerant of Islam, and maybe they're not really welcome here.
I happen to think all religion is equally stupid, and stuff like this doesn't really help prove otherwise. No good can come from this, even if the harm is less than spectacular.